Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is in quarantine after exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, but he has tested negative for the virus, his spokesman said.
In a statement on Twitter, Cody Hall said the governor’s office was told Monday that someone the governor had been near when he was touring storm damage Saturday in the town of Newnan tested positive Monday.
The governor took a “rapid-response antigen test” Monday and it was negative, Hall said. Those tests provide quick on-site results and are less expensive to administer than the more widely used molecular tests, but the tests are deemed less accurate.
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